LIGO detects merging black holes for third time
Nearly 3 billion light years from Earth, the black holes are the farthest ever detected.
Nearly 3 billion light years from Earth, the black holes are the farthest ever detected.
Some 40 light-years away, "super-Earth" identified as new target for atmospheric study.
Data suggest black holes swallow stellar debris in bursts.
Funding will complete array and measure signals from universe’s first stars.
Astronomers observe black hole producing cold, star-making fuel from hot plasma jets and bubbles.
Users can search database of 1,600 stars to find signs of new exoplanets.
Upgrades make detectors more sensitive to gravitational waves.
Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.
Instrument will help OSIRIS-REx mission identify locations for collecting an asteroid sample.
Scientists find gas at center of Perseus cluster travels much more slowly than expected.
Signal was produced by two black holes colliding 1.4 billion light years away.
Findings suggest two dining styles for black holes.
LIGO inventor shares award for direct detection of gravitational waves.
Physics professor emeritus shares prize with Caltech's Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever for designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.